Sarah Palin, today:
CNN:Who did the best job in the debate?
McCain (R) 30
Obama (D) 54CBS: 39 percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed identified Barack Obama as tonight’s winner; 27 percent said John McCain won, while 35 percent saw the debate as a draw.
SurveyUSA (WA) Of debate watchers:
* 54% say Obama was the clear winner.
* 29% say McCain was the clear winner.
* 18% say there was no clear winner.
Delusional.
(Thanks to Jed for the video)
gbear
I blame Obama.
Polish the Guillotines
Man, I’m sick of this "I asked for 10 town halls and he said no, so I had to get sleazy" bullshit.
I would love for Obama to come right out and call this a "temper tantrum."
Then again, I guess he really doesn’t need to.
slag
I think your previous assessment was more accurate. "Sociopaths."
dmsilev
Suits me fine. If they want to preach to the converted, great. That sort of alternate reality view isn’t going to win over too many votes from outside the GOP base, and there aren’t enough people in the GOP base to win the election.
It just makes them look stupid.
-dms
Rick Taylor
Via TPM, in a speech, McCain referred to Americans as "my fellow prisoners." Did you know he was a POW?
jon
New campaign direction announced! Behold as Sarah Palin desperately shows she still has it to Lowry, Pantload, and Hannity.
t jasper parnell
She said, didn’t she, "the truth won out and the path became so clear in the next 27 days." She is a prophesier; she is a witch, the prayers didn’t work: burn her.
EddieInCA
McCain/Palin: "Look, a scary, angry, black, Muslim, terrorist sympathizer!"
Obama/Biden (pointing): "Scoreboard."
Comrade Scrutinizer
Speaking of disconnects, Mika was subbing for Gregory tonight on RttWH, and was pimping hard for how Palin is making a difference for McCain. She seemed to be really upset when even Repubs were saying that Palin was pretty much a boat anchor.
Grand Moff Texan
PUSSY IS IN PLAY:
That’s the sound of Barack Obama calling John McCain a pussy on ABC news.
Heh.
.
uila
I like the other video Jed has up with the Fox floozies freaking out over the failure of Newsweek to airbrush Palin’s face on their cover. Talk about rearranging the deck chairs…
Stuck in the Funhouse
I can no longer stand to hear the sound of that woman’s voice.
Cloaking wingnut Sadism with the sound of a female Daffy Duck causes even the surly denizens of the Funhouse to claw out their empty eyesockets.
OT – DO NOT install IE 8 beta and then try to uninstall. Causes Windows to crash with a thud. Had to scrub my HD and reinstall the whole XP again. Of course the reinstall disks were buried under a ton of junk and didn’t work the way they’re supposed to. But finally.
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
Really John, all these wonderful posts… (I count 12 today), this is all just because when I went to Firefox Add-ons to get my BBCode posting tool, I came across the Colorful Tabs tool and couldn’t resist, so you’re just making sure I see every single color of the rainbow, right?
Punchy
honestly, what r u expectin her to say? "McCane suxxed ass last nite"? "Popeye cudnt find his spinach"? "Check out these funbags"?
Tom65
For some reason, the image of Nicolas Cage in a bear suit, running up and cold-cocking her, is all I can think of whenever I hear her voice.
t jasper parnell
I found this via this guy who posted this comment on the debate from someone else:
Which I think wraps things up.
Comrade Jake
Mika truly does not strike me as all that bright. I think she was adopted.
harlana pepper
That voice! No more Palin vids for me for a while, I can’t take it. Like fingernails across a chalkboard.
Me Likey
How long has Palin been going with the MILF hairdo? I have probably missed it b/c she is never truly in the media b/c she is sequestered. But I like the new hairdo.
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
Fixt!
After all, she is the whore of "Babble On!"
Comrade Jake
Asshole, don’t give them any ideas. Asshole.
demkat620
Question: Who’s crazier, Sarah Palin or Alan Keyes?
WarrenTerragon
Mom?
Comrade Scrutinizer
I know that when her Dad shows up on MJ, it’s not unusual for him to tell her she’s wrong about something.
WarrenTerragon
Where did we get the video of myiq2xu and his family?
Love it when we get to know our fellow bloggers.
(((((((( BJ )))))))))))
Will
Palin’s "McCain won debate" spin reminds me of Joementum’s "tied for third" New Hampshire 2004 finish, when he came in fifth.
t jasper parnell
Answer: John McCain
AkaDad
The night Obama wins, the odds are very good that my keyboard and monitor will be splashed with starbursts.
Comrade Jake
Lieberman is such a fucking tool.
harlana pepper
I just saw new Obama ad: McCain doesn’t want to fix health care, he wants to tax it.
That.is.beautiful. Here comes the health care debate, per David Plouffe. The ride is gonna get really fun, now.
Dennis - SGMM
Question: Who’s crazier, Sarah Palin or Alan Keyes?
Both are crazier than a shithouse rat.
Comrade Jake
In other news, fuck Sean Hannity. Fuck him. Fucker.
Comrade Scrutinizer
I¬LF Palin. I can’t imagine why anyone other than that doddering idiot McCain would. She has the "Governess in fuck me heels" look, but nothing to go along with it. On a scale of 10 she’s no better than a four in looks, and the voice and utter emptiness of the space she calls her head pulls that down further. When you add to all that she’s a demagogue for the worst of the right wing nutcases, I’d rather be pulled through a knothole by my testicles than take a crack at her.
Rick Taylor
Whoops, I forgot the link to the video of John McCain calling us his "fellow prisoners."
We’re all pawns, m’dear.
Brian
You know… her debate performance was lousy and her interviews were complete clusterfucks, but I think Palin does really well on the stump like in the video. SHe hits all the right buttons and lays out that faux-folksy charm like no other politician I can think of in recent history. The crowd just eats it up…
But still, I agree with the CW that she was, in hindsight, a bad pick for McCain. McCain was never a favorite of the base so bending over backwards to appease them while turning off a large swathe of potential voters is looking like a net loss for him. PErhaps he should have run a more centrist campaign under the assumption that the neanderthal right would vote for him anyway…
In other news, I just heard from my mom that the uniformed cop that mentioned Barrack Hussein Obama yesterday at the Palin rally is getting in trouble for it… Such a pity…
cleek
Fox News’ post-debate poll last night showed McCain winning the debate with like 80% of the votes!
of course it was a text-message poll. which probably meant you could vote as often as you like. and was self-selecting by virtue of being on Fox News while Sean Hannity was interviewing people.
The Moar You Know
All the GOP has left in the quiver is "nigger" and a 44-year old woman’s hooters, and there is no Plan B.
Who thought it would end this badly for them? I thought they’d at least go out with a bang. But this? This is just pathetic.
Hate to give either one of these two America-hating dipshits any credit, but Keyes has depths of crazy unknown to science. Sarah Palin is more stupid than crazy.
gbear
Crooks and Liars has got a clip of Joe Biden talking at a rally today. It’s a good antedote to that Palin clip. The crowd is obviously having a good time.
Warning: I like C&L redesign, but what he’s done to his videos is horribly annoying.
Comrade Jake
Heh. You know what’s interesting about that clip? Biden using the phrase "John McCain is lurching from one position to another." Obama used the same "lurching" today. It’s deliberate on their part, and it’s very smart, IMO.
4tehlulz
>>Question: Who’s crazier, Sarah Palin or Alan Keyes?
Alan Keyes’s crazy is amusing and essentially harmless. Sarah Palin’s crazy involves incitement. I’ll go with Sarah here.
jon
Lurching? Thanks, guys. Now I have a mental image of an angry, lashing out at everything McCain demanding an answer to "Where is my harpsichord?"
boonagain
I am loving how Obama called out McCain for his chickenshit behavior in the ABC Gibson interview.
demkat620
Yeah, I’ve been waiting for a stupid and futile act that will make its mark in history. Still waiting.
Anybody know what’ll happen if we start playing Slim Whitman?
Comrade Colonel Ivan Ivanovich Renko
They have no courage.
They have no honor.
They sold their party’s soul to Satan in return for the support of racists, bigots, and haters.
They merely reap what they have sown.
Comrade Jake
Absolutely. That’s the image Team Obama wants you to have. It’s almost a perfect adjective. It conveys erratic, clumsy, angry, dangerous behavior.
SamFromUtah
@The Moar You Know: I thought they’d at least go out with a bang. But this? This is just pathetic.
Don’t forget the lame duck Preznit and his vampire VP. If Bush really gets a "legacy" hair up his ass there could still be a pretty good bang.
DrDave
@Stuck in the Funhouse:
Like nails on a blackboard. She can’t get deported back to Alaska soon enough.
Comrade Scrutinizer
Ack! Ack! Ac… (sploot)
r€nato
that’s what I ‘ve been saying since the day he announced her as the VP pick.
McCain likes ’em young and hot. Cindy is 18 years his junior, IIRC. ( I read recently that when they met, he lied about his age and claimed to be 37 while she lied too and claimed to be 26.)
I’m 100% certain he got some nasty looks from Cindy when he told her who he was picking… and then she reached for the Vicodin.
Dennis - SGMM
I thought they’d at least go out with a bang. But this? This is just pathetic.
It’s difficult for me to believe that the Republicans aren’t trying to throw the election on purpose. I mean, look at the slate of midgets that ran for the nomination. Fred Thompson? Rudy Giuliani? Crap. I can just hear the party elders telling McCain, "Sarah who? Oh, governor of Alaska for less than two years. Yeah, great idea John!"
r€nato
of the many poor impressions I got of McCain last night during the debate, for sure one of them was his wandering around in the background while Obama was speaking. It was like watching an Alzheimer’s patient at the care center aimlessly wandering around with no idea where he’s going.
jhaygood
OK, speaking of creating their own reality – check this guy out. Classic wingnut that rails endlessly about stinking liberals, and now he’s upside down in the Las Vegas real estate market and so, of course, he should get some special treatment ala McCain’s homeowner bailout from the debate last night – which I think McCain just pulled out of his anus. Though he doesn’t realize it his suggestion is fraud (buy a new house at low prices – as if he could get that loan now – then walk away from the first house. Like I said, fraud.) Be he doesn’t want to do that, so he wants the government to offer up some help to the less fortunate (him, in this case). Amazing how falling on hard times makes people overnight populists. But the 180 these people can pull is head-spinning.
But it all makes sense to him. Reminds me of Albert Brooks in Lost In America – his wife loses the "nest egg" at a casino, so he goes and pitches the head of the casino that it would be a dandy advertising ploy for the casino to give him his money back! Needless to say, his idea was turned down…
Notorious P.A.T.
Youuuuu raaaaang?
Dennis - SGMM
that’s what I ‘ve been saying since the day he announced her as the VP pick.
Seems to me that many women would be offended by McCain’s choice. There are Republican women who have worked hard at their political careers. For McCain to pass them all up for the obviously unready Miss Snowmobile has to cause some resentment.
gbear
YIKES! Also up at Crooks and Liars, David fucking Brooks says Sarah Palin "Represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party".
Comrade Scrutinizer
Fortunately, Mika has informed us that, contrary to what nasty people like Brooks says, Palin has been an energizing addition for the Republican Party. When confronted with the information that a number of conservatives share Brooks’ view, Mika furrowed her forehead, stamped her foot, and pouted.
gbear
Yikes again!! (via Americablog)
After a week of McCain supporters being incited to shout "kill him!" and "terrorist!" and "treason!", a man in Louisiana was arrested for threatening to kill election officials…It seems his voter registration card was delayed, and he was insistent that he would bring his shotgun to their office and kill them if they didn’t hurry up because he needed to "keep the n*gger out of office."
Punchy
Can u imagine da outrage if a dem had compared a polly to a ‘fatal cancer’? Armmegeodon
Joe Beese
This is just Act I of The Sarah Palin Story, my friends.
By 2012, when pawn shops and prisons are the only profitable industries left in America, people are going to be ready for a fuehrer.
Sarah Palin will be there to speak to them.
gbear
THAT showed them. Harrumph!
Punchy
just realized that "Obama" has ‘bomb’ in the name. Terrist!
Dennis - SGMM
Hard to believe that Mika is the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski. I don’t always agree with the man but at least he thinks.
Stuck in the Funhouse
Is this tiny blue comment section a snafu. Wait let me get my magnifying glass.
Wow, back to norm. Must have been a flashback from my better living thru modern chemistry misspent youth.
Stuck in the Funhouse
So was George Bush Many moons and wars ago. Now he’s the wingnut that kilt the GOP.
Delia
Wow. First George Will. Then Kathleen Parker. Now David Brooks. All their respectable front persons seem to be jumping ship. Soon all they’ll have left are the ones who sit around pleasuring themselves in front of the teevee screen when the manly men or the hot women come on and do their thing. Republican porn. How low can it go?
tripletee (formerly tBone)
By 2012, I think they’ll just give up and run Reagan’s exhumed corpse with a boiled egg or something in the VP slot. It couldn’t be any worse than the McCain campaign.
oh really
In late-breaking news, the Swedes have named Sarah Palin this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner.
The selection committee said they were going to give it to George W. Bush, but then Sarah winked…
Reached by phone for his opinion, Rich Lowry, being treated at the ER for an erection that has lasted longer than four weeks, said "This is better than Kissinger!"
DonnaInMichigan
Anyone catch Michelle Obama on Larry King Live tonight?
The epitome of class.
Stuck in the Funhouse
May not have to do that. It’ll be the Palin/Bonzo ticket in 2012.
blogreeder
What did you expect her to say? I think we know who the delusional one is here. I’m pointing a finger at you John and saying "THAT ONE".
kommrade jakevich
She thinks she addressing the citizens of the Holy Alaskan Empire.
DougJ
Who cares? At least the McCain people treat reporters nicely. That’s what matters.
Here’s Dean Reynolds of CBS News:
The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama’s, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.
The other day in Albuquerque, N.M., the reporters were given almost no time to file their reports after McCain spoke. It was an important, aggressive speech, lambasting Obama’s past associations. When we asked for more time to write up his remarks and prepare our reports, the campaign readily agreed to it. They understood.
Similar requests are often denied or ignored by the Obama campaign aides, apparently terrified that the candidate may have to wait 20 minutes to allow reporters to chronicle what he’s just said. It’s made all the more maddening when we are rushed to our buses only to sit and wait for 30 minutes or more because nobody seems to know when Obama is actually on the move.
Maybe none of this means much. Maybe a front-running campaign like Obama’s that is focused solely on victory doesn’t have the time to do the mundane things like print up schedules or attend to the needs of reporters.
The Moar You Know
A sad truth: were Sarah Palin a man, Brooks wouldn’t say a fucking word against her. The blame for this losing effort would be pinned squarely on the guy who earned it, John McCain.
El Cid
I asked my boss for 10 town hall meetings, but he didn’t agree to it, so now I guess it’s okay for me to steal from the company. Right? I mean, John McCain is Jesus, right?
t jasper parnell
No, not steal; however, you can punch him in the junk.
jcricket
Look, McCain needed a "shock" to jolt his campaign back to life. Unfortunately the shock he got was a taser to the genitals.
I’m also LOLing at Coleman being taken out by Franken and a bunch of bloggers who uncovered that he’s got a wee-gift unreported gift problem. Palin’s got a tax problem too, amongst her zillion other issues. If only the prosecutors in the Stevens case weren’t so F’ing stupid – although there’s still a chance the case won’t get thrown out. Stevens will get convicted (and appeal of course), but will be voted out.
This campaign season proves again that Peak Schadenfreude is a bunch of liberal hooey, much like evolution, global warming and the housing bubble.
DougJ
Fixed
TheFountainHead
Shorter Reynolds: It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Joshua Norton
Dana Perino said unemployed people should help the economy by ‘just getting a job’. Don’t even dare to ask ChimpCo to extend jobless benefits.
See how easy that is? Now all homeless people should just get a house and that problem would be solved, too.
The Moar You Know
Dean Reynolds ought to be grateful that the citizens of this nation aren’t preparing thousand-slot gallows for him and his Republican-enabling media buddies, the mass hangings to be used as the centerpiece of Obama’s Inauguration Day festivities.
jcricket
Given how far out of bumfuckistan-obscurity Palin was picked, it wouldn’t surprise me if some crazy asshats we’ve never heard of are the ticket next time around.
Everyone who ran this time is damaged goods, and McCain (who failed once before) might convince people not to vote for any of them. But still, the narrative is already being written – not conservative enough. I LOVE IT!
H&H in 2012 (Hannity/Hinderaker!)
Stuck in the Funhouse
from Think Progress
blogreeder
Thanks for the video. Between you and Andrew I keep up with all the Palin news. I think she’s great. Really. Anyone who can make the democrats reveal how little their minds are, is A-OK in my book. It’s hilarious that Andrew still wants to see the Trig’s birth certificate. All I can say is too bad she’s teamed up with such an old coot. Camille Paglia has it right.
tripletee (formerly tBone)
Shorter Reynolds: The Obama campaign is like Gitmo for reporters. They strapped me down in the back of the plane and poured sand in my mangina repeatedly for an entire year, and didn’t give me a single donut or barbecue rib.
DougJ
And I like that Dean Reynolds talks about what a great job the McCain people do organizing everything after writing:
How fucking hard is it to keep reporters informed of what’s going on when there’s one fucking event a day??????
This is like something out of the onion.
Dennis - SGMM
Maybe none of this means much. Maybe a front-running campaign like Obama’s that is focused solely on victory doesn’t have the time to do the mundane things like print up schedules or attend to the needs of reporters.
Cry me a river. For most of the campaign the press has had its collective face buried so deeply in McCain’s withered old ass that they’d get a broken nose if he made a sharp turn. They kept covering for him even after it became painfully obvious that he had become a pathetic flailing old liar. When McCain finally turned his vitriol on the press they finally sort of remembered what their job is.
DougJ
And I left off the last line. It took a minute for it to sink in:
He’s coming out and saying he’s going to screw Obama with the coverage because he doesn’t like how Obama’s airplane smells.
Good Lord.
blogreeder
I don’t recall that. Do you have a link?
LarryB
@Brian:
Nah, she comes from a long tradition of intolerant American moralists from Cotton Mather to Mike Huckabee, via William Jennings Bryant. Usually, they have a little more going for them than SP, but it’s always the same schtick.
tripletee (formerly tBone)
@DougJ:
I bet it smells like falafel and explosives. Don’t you think the American people have a right to know that?
The good citizens of Ohio have already figured it out.
The Moar You Know
Taking a hostile and defensive posture with the press when you are losing is a great way to make up lost ground.
Today the most ardent of my Republican family members admitted that it’s already over. It would be sad to see how broken these people are, how totally let down they are by the utter and abject failure of their candidate, if they hadn’t been directly responsible for the election of the man that bought their party to ruin.
bayville
Noted airplane glue sniffer, Jennifer Rubin watched the same debate as Palin:
TheFountainHead
I would not be the man I am today were it not for Jon Stewart. That is all.
The Moar You Know
Bill Clinton. Ronald Reagan. Mike Huckabee. They are/were all far better at it than Klondike Barbie.
It’s a bit deeper than that. This is a straight-up racist dogwhistle from Reynolds.
DougJ
I bet it smells like falafel and explosives.
I heard it’s collard greens and chronic.
Brother Holy Claymore of Enlightened Tranquility
@LarryB: I like Huckabee. I do not like his policies, but I like Huckabee. Guy has a sense of humor and does not take himself too seriously. I am cool with that.
That is also kind of the same reason I still can tolerate Pat Buchanan, despite the fact he is a crazy old bigot. At least he knows he is full of shit, and he is straight forward and honest about the fact that he is a mercernary. He doesn’t get caught up in what is right, he just clearly states what needs to be done to win. It is refreshingly honest in that regard.
Dennis - SGMM
This week in the McCain campaign: "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."
blogreeder
Are you watching that too? It’s awful. Jon use to be funny but now he’s too biased. It’s like watching Rush Limbaugh. I guess since he’s got Michelle on, he’s really got to turn in on. I think he had Tim Robbins on yesterday and I just caught a glimpse when Tim said "When will we have an intelligent candidate?!!" after a clip of Palin. So Tim doesn’t think too much of Obama?
tripletee (formerly tBone)
And Cristal, because they’re elitists.
TheFountainHead
Worst. Spooftroll. Evah.
DougJ
And Cristal, because they’re elitists.
Likely, AK’s and gold teeth are odorless.
aarrgghh
the left always makes the mistake of tossing numbers around as if they prove anything. you need to put these arguments into a context even a freeper can understand. this is what the debates so far have looked like, and most likely what november will look like: election ’08
LA Confidential Pantload
So that’s how they’re going out? Not with a bang, but a winker?
cain
miq2xu is that you???
cain
blogreeder
No.
The Moar You Know
Come on now – Mikey sometimes showed intelligence and humor along with the crazy and frothing rage. This guy is like a dead jellyfish washed up on the beach, only without the stingers.
Zuzu Petals
Well they can just thank their lucky stars they’re not traveling with the Palin troupe. They’re not allowed anywhere near the rally-goers, and if they are, they get shouted at, cursed, called racial epithes, and/or told to "sit down, boy."
WaPo
cain
Both have that plaintive note which made me suspect goatboy. I do miss the ol’ boy. But he was never the same after Obama won.
cain
TenguPhule
And it begins.
TenguPhule
And that tells you everything you need to know.
Conservatively Liberal
borgreefer is a wingnut wanker who just likes to troll here when bored, never saying anything of value, just looking to waste time on worthless arguments about the latest wingnut talking points and other irrelevant crap.
He is great to point a, mock and ridicule but forget any meaningful conversation. I have dealt with teenagers who can argue better points that him.
borgreefer is looking for goats, just like Mikey, so confusing the two of them is understandable.
Conservatively Liberal
Yup. Anyone who thinks Sarah is qualified to be president isn’t worth wasting the time it would take to fart in their direction. Only a fruitcake would support Palin and you can’t argue with a fruitcake. It’s fruitless!
But they do make great door stops.
Billy Bob Neck
Just like President Bush, McCain and Mrs. Palin don’t need to pay attention to no polls. Polls don’t tell you what’s going on in a man’s heart and that’s what important.
Wolfdaughter
I like this from Joe, too. No one else has brought it up so far, but this is also a poke at the Repubs for calling Kerry "Lurch" back in 04. I love it!